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Obviously this is an indication of Heymans deep and knowledgeable sources and not that he repeats whatever some agent shoots shit with him on late at night for his columns.

When it’s the playoffs or meaningful games yeah I want to see that. i don’t know, I guess I still believe that crap that Ozzie in 04 taught our pitchers how to get out of trouble by keeping them in when Manuel pulled and it paid off later when we needed them to go deep in long seasons and playoffs.

Our best reliever is in charlotte with our best hitter right now and it’s not Ricky’s fault.

Cooper has always said he goes more by when mechanics start breaking down the pitch count. Not a fan of the let them go until they fail stuff but in a rebuilding year I do want our young starters to learn how to go deep and maintain their stuff.

*sox trade away competent middle reliever for 40 year old single A pitcher* soxalk: Hooray! We saved our owner money and maximized our sweet sweet asset *trash bullpen gives up lead* soxtalk: why is our bullpen trash? Must be the manager putting the wrong trash reliever in!

It’s almost like when you purposely make your bullpen bad this happens.

Shocker

Clearly it’s doing great

I like my luises.

Stop acting like watching video tapes can’t lead to back to back to back national championships.

Palka moves away from plate, is promptly pitched outside, is. doesnt seem like the foolproof trick it’s made out to be.

Shame he may not be able to go more than six.

Nice job avoiding that Sandy

Can’t help but yell “BROCK HOLT”” every time

Nicky you stupid

That Steve stone comment on pitching improvement leading to better defense was interesting.

I'm not sure we are fully aware of what the market implications would be, but for one the players could argue for more guaranteed revenue to the union, or also increase the cost of the first contracts to create more equity in the balance of vets vs younger players. There are a number of scenarios I find plausible that making the first contracts more expensive OR reducing length may have consequences in making more equitable toward players: - The long length of control (6 years) has many players signing extensions to hedge against injury - This has reduced the pool of younger and high quality players from free agency, making free agency less attractive for team building - This has made the strategy of tanking more potent because it allows a larger number of in their prime players on the team at same time, and financial flexibility to lock them up So, if FA has better potential to build teams up, more teams could spend and boost salaries. If teams are competing, they may very well be more willing to sign a vet for their bench over banking that a 23 year old kid can do same for cheaper, but less certainty.

I feel this way but also I don't see why his agents are to blame, they are acting in his best interests right now. I get where both sides are coming from, but I think it's clearly an exploitative strategy on sox part, which isn't to say it isn't by the rules, so it's hard for me to be pumped about them pursuing it.

Woo hoo I got one

I hated when Astros were doing this with players and I hate it now. I've said it before, but did sox really not think this would happen? He was good in AA but they could have avoided all of this by just keeping him there until Aug 1, then giving him last month in AAA. Just stupid on their part.

yeah, W-S playoffs should be exciting at least. The good news? Since white sox are one of few teams with instructionals games we'll probably get a bulk of the scouting notes from those games in late sept.

had my auction draft last night. So weird how everyone seems to converge on same philosophies each year. Every year is different, everyone operates largely the same. I ended up (for first time) getting out in front of QBs and paying too much, but made up for it by slow playing saquon barkley and getting him about $20 cheaper than the other top RBs. But my WR crop is meh. Tyreek hill and diggs could be good but have big question marks with how they will be favored with new QBs, but i could easily see these two qbs who look for big plays going to them more often for big plays.

I would not be surprised if Laz Rivera is on it, reminds me a bit of Mendick last year.

Isn't it wild though how Andrew Wiggins will make like way more money than Aaron rodgers by end of his career?

There are more teams trying though for sure in the east. I think only NYK, Brooklyn and ATL are tanking. I think Orlando with Gordon/Isaac/Bamba could be sneaky good, and Charlotte, DET, CLE are definitely gunning for a playoff birth. So yeah, I do think there is a better chance than 50-1, but that path will likely be from one of the top 7 teams having an injury/horrible year that leads to an unexpected tank. East is bad this year due to talent deficiency but isn't the joke it was last year.